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Professor Smith is a specialist in the history of imperial Russia, conducting research centered on the palace town of Gatchina. She is currently planning to write a monograph focused on autocratic authority in the region, which will incorporate findings from various archives. Her previous work includes a completed monograph on social status and social mobility titled 'Common Good, Own Social Estates in Imperial Russia,' published by Oxford in 2014. She has also published several articles related to these subjects, including 'Freed Serfs, Free People: Manumission in Imperial Russia' in the American Historical Review (2013). Additionally, her projects have been supported by grants from SSHRC and IREX. Professor Smith has explored the intersection of food and national identity in her book 'Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood in the Tsars' (2008), which examines the interaction of foreign knowledge with traditional patterns of food production and consumption. Her articles cover specific aspects of this general subject, such as 'National Cuisine and Nationalist Politics: V.F. Odoevskii’s “Doctor Puf,” 1844-5' (2009) and 'Eating in Imperial Russia: Class, Nationality, and Dining during the Great Reforms' (2006).
Department of Sociology